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The big question: "What new technology will be significant in ten years' time"
Frank Moss, Director, MIT New Media Medicine group
"We will see 'anti-social networks', support groups where self-diagnosed 'digital addicts' will meet each week for a few hours, without any devices. They will share experiences, express real emotions and seek out ways to return control, privacy and sanity to their lives."
Rana el Kaliouby, <span class="s1">Cofounder and CTO, Affectiva<span class="s1">
"Today's technology augments our cognitive abilities, but is largely oblivious to how we feel. In ten years, emotion-enabled technology will be everywhere -- computers, phones and clothes. It will manage our calendars to minimise stress and recommend content based on our likes."
Michael Bove, Head, Object-Based Media group, MIT Media Lab
"I think we will see a vastly broader definition of telepresence. Systems will not just create ultra-high-definition links between meeting rooms, but will apply semantic understanding of scenes and tasks. New interface affordances will reconfigure collaborative environments."
Catherine Havasi, Research scientist, MIT Digital Intuition Lab
"3D printing is already making custom medical devices, replacement parts, art and buildings. It is still an alternative culture, but it won't take long for it to become cheap and mainstream, and for current problems to be solved. It will allow anyone to be a cutting-edge inventor."
Glorianna Davenport (pictured), Visiting scientist, MIT Media Lab
"I envision new methods for exploring planetary ecosystems.
Inexpensive, sensor-rich networks will record natural events. Data streams will be transformed into a highly patterned history of place via advanced mobile devices, inviting us to become interpreters in a living observatory."
Andrew Lippman, Associate director, MIT Media Lab
"We will be building systems that in some sense know what they are doing and know us - cars that can drive themselves, cities that reflect human needs and respond in human ways and designs that encourage people to engage in real understanding of the underlying principles."
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
